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ALBERT J. SESSIONS, DEGEASED, OF BRISTOL, OONNEGTIOI, BY ELLEN L. SESSIONS, ADMINISTRATRIX, ASSIGNOR TO `JOHN H. SESSIONS, OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 108,300, dated October 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENTfIN CASTERS FCR TRUNK.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, ALBERT J. SESSIONS, of Bristol, in the county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invent-ed a new and useful Improvement in TrunkLRollers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of forming a trunk-roller frame from a Square sheet-metal blank, having four short diagonal incisions in the edges of the same, bc-

The metal is first' cut into square blanks, with each" corner slightly rounded, and a hole punched. in each, as shown in fig. 3. vThe blank is then placed in the forming-dies, specially prepared for the purpose, which, as they close or meet, make four short incisions, a a

la a, iig. 1, diagonallywith the blank.

The two opposite corners of the blank between these incisions are, at the same time, bent up at right angles to the rest of the blank or plate A, thus forming the ears B B, and leaving the points c c c c on the main portion of the plater The usual cast-metal roller C is then secured between the ears B B by a pin. as in ordinary trunkrollers.

. The points c c c c give the plate A greater width than it would otherwise have, and also cause that portion between the ears B B to be formed less rounding than it would be it' the 'incisions were omitted. V

If desired, the points cc c c might be bent in an opposite direction from thc earsi, and he driven into the wood when fastened to the trunk.

By the above-named construction, whether the points are bent down or not, a broad surface is secured for the underside of the plate, wherchythe roller can be secured to a trunk in Such `manner that it is not liable to rock sidewise, and thus break 'the nails or screws by which it is fastened to the trunk, as is the case with other sheetmetal frames having ears bent from the outside.

I claim as my invention- The herein-described trunk-roller, the frame of which is formed from a square sheet metal blank, cut

or incised at the junction of the plate A and ears B B,

said ears being bent up from twoopposite corners, so

as to leave the points c c c c, substantially as described.

` A; J SESSIONS.

Witnesses JOHN WARD, T. T. WILSDON. 

